Guns N’ Roses fans had reason to tremble and shudder this morning (and not just from the usual Chinese Democracy flashbacks and nightmares): Axl Rose’s official Twitter let loose with this shocking nugget on Sunday night:
As you may recall, Irving Azoff and Front Line Management launched a lawsuit earlier this against Axl Rose, alleging that “Rose broke an oral agreement for Front Line to receive 5% the singer’s commissions, which are ‘due on more than $12 million in earnings’ that he earned from performances overseas.” Which is pretty funny on two counts: 1) That a major corporation actually believed that a man who surgically altered his face to resemble stretched Silly Putty could be held accountable for anything he says; and 2) Axl Rose made $12 million last year? Man, that’s wild.
Accordingly, Rose amped up this legal slapfight to a $5 million countersuit according to Spin, noting that Azoff conspired to reunite the original Guns N’ Roses lineup, in addition to really, really hurting Axl’s feelings. No, seriously.
BeatCrave hopes everyone had the best of Cinco De Mayo’s as the 2010 version is one that will go down in our memories. Last night we were on the scene at one of our favorite secrets in Hollywood, Bardot, to catch the exclusive live debut of Jane’s Addiction new line up featuring bassist Duff McKagan (of Guns N’ Roses fame).
Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2010 has planned some big things! If you stopped for a second and wondered if this headline was really true, don’t waste your time. All of that is happening on August 27 – 29. The Libertines are actually going to take the stage together again and yes, Axl Rose will be performing on the same stage as the beloved and melodramatic Canadian band, Arcade Fire. Oh yeah, Blink-182 is in there somewhere too.
Axl Rose, frontman for both Guns N’ Roses and the essentially-just-a-tribute-band group that currently tours under that name, has apparently—gasp!—burned a bridge in the music industry. AP reports that Irving Azoff’s Front Line Management sued the waxy-faced (seriously, what is that? Botox?) singer on Thursday for approximately $1.9 million in “unpaid commissions” and fees.
The management company contends that Rose broke an oral agreement for Front Line to receive 5% the singer’s commissions, which are “due on more than $12 million in earnings” that he earned from performances overseas.
Guns N’ Roses‘ Axl Rose will always be in the news for some ridiculous incident whether involves love, drugs, or paparazzi. Last week, Rose was supposedly in a throwdown with one of the photographers at Los Angeles’ International Airport. A spokesperson from the airport said there were no airport officials around to see it, but it was caught on tape by the TMZ.
Now, it seems that Rose is in a fight with himself. According to MTV, front man Rose is denying authorization on a statement about LAX’s paparazzi incident. Yes, he is in a fight with some words he was supposed to have said himself!
Gun n’ Roses‘ Chinese Democracy album was one of the longest awaited albums that I’d encountered in my life time. For a while, it was running neck and neck with Dr. Dre‘s continuously pending, Detox (which still doesn’t have a release date). After Democracy‘s release almost a year ago, the band has finally decided to go on tour with it and guess what? The U.S. isn’t a part of it. Guns n’ Roses will hit the northern territories to visit our friends in Canada instead.
Take a look at the schedule…
Welcome to the lawsuit.
Guns N’ Roses are being sued for $1 million for allegedly copying songs which found their way onto the talked-to-death and eventually released in 2008 album Chinese Democracy.
Two independent record labels, Independiente and Domino, are suing Guns n’ Roses and Universal Music Group, claiming a song off Chinese Democracy copied portions of two songs by German music artist Ulrich Schnauss.
Former Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is going to record a cover of Led Zeppelin’s song Kashmir with electronic string quartet Escala. The artists are set to record in Los Angeles later this week, after being brought together by Escala’s manager Simon Cowell.
Escala rose to fame when they reached the final of the second series of the show “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2008. The Sun reports that:
“He was looking for someone unexpected to work with the girls and asked if he’d be interested. [Slash] really liked the idea and jumped at the chance.”
